Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workable program. Such a program, he said, will be ready for a campaign plank after the Republican Convention, and hopefully it will be a good one, so that neither he nor G.O.P. Congressmen will have to run on Ezra Benson's record. Nixon added that he plans a hard campaign through the Middle West and particularly in towns under 10,000 population, where he can talk to farmers. Said Ben Jensen: "Nick,* you will honor every small town in America if you do that. That's where America lives...
...their price or not at all. Another new force is sharp foreign competition. For the first time since the 1920s, U.S. labor and management are facing efficient, hustling overseas competition. Price cutting abroad and buyer resistance at home, say the economists, are forcing labor and management to recognize some hard facts about the danger in ever-rising wages and prices...
...last seen heading back to the city, "where the children of God lay sleeping." Author O'Connor tells this bizarre plot with her own brand of authority; her hard prose seems armed with staring, baleful eyes. The reader may shudder in distaste, but those eyes fix and hold him. And yet, while her handling of God-drunk backwoodsmen is based in religious seriousness, it seldom seems to rise above an ironic jape. It is this suggestion of the secure believer poking bitter fun at the confused and bedeviled that lingers in the mind after the tale is ended-rather...
Ikiru (Japanese) is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa, a masterwork of burning social conscience and hard-eyed psychological realism...
Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject, from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the flaccid 20th-century...